Fernando Clara's academic journey is marked by degrees in Modern Languages and Literatures and German Studies. He has held positions as a Portuguese lecturer and taught at universities in Germany. Currently a professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, his research interests span cultural studies, German culture, the 18th-century European landscape, and luso-German relations, exploring rich cross-cultural connections.
Nazi Germany and Southern Europe, 1933-45 is about transnational fascist discourse. It addresses the cultural and scientific links between Nazi Germany and Southern Europe focusing on a hybrid international environment and an intricate set of objects that include individual, social, cultural or scientific networks and events.